Heinrich Böll Foundation

Purpose/Activities

The Heinrich Böll Foundation is a legally independent political foundation emerging 1997 from the foundation association Regenbogen and is affiliated with the Green Party. Its activities are guided by the fundamental political values of ecology, democracy, solidarity, and non-violence, its organs of regional activities in political education are the 16 state foundations.

The Foundation's primary objective is to support political education promoting democratic involvement, socio-political activism, and cross-cultural understanding. Both within Germany and abroad it is engaged in the fields